Poetry Methods Flashcards

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Alliteration

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A type of consonance where the repeated sound is in the emphasised parts of the words

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Anaphora

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The deliberate repetition of the first part of the sentence in order to achieve an effect

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Assonance

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The repetition of a vowel sound between words to create an internal rhyme and rhythm

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Asyndeton

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Leaving out a conjunction (such as and, as , I went, I saw) where one would normally be expected

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Cacophony

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A harsh discordant mixture of sounds

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Caesura

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A pause or break in the middle of a line of poetry

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Consonance

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The repetition of a consonant more than twice in quick succession

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Elegy

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A mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead

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Epistrophe

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The repetition of the same word or group of words at the end of lines, clauses or sentences

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Epizeuxis

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When words or phrases are repeated in a quick succession after each other for emphasis

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Euphony

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Sounds which are pleasing to the ear

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Eye-rhyme

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A similarity between words in spelling but not in pronunciation

Eg. Love and Move

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Feminine Rhyme

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Rhyme that matches two or more syllables usually at the end of respective lines in which the final syllable or syllables are unstressed

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Fricatives

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Sounds that are made by nearly closing your mouth including ‘f’, ‘th’, and ‘v’

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Half rhyme

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Type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds

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Masculine rhyme

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Rhyme on a single stressed syllable at the end of a line of poetry

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Onomatopoeia

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A word that sounds something like the thing described

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Parallelism

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The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter

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Plosives

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Sounds that can only be made by stopping the passage of air to or from the lungs like ‘p’, ‘t’, ‘k’, ‘b’, ‘d’, ‘g’.

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Polysindeton

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The use of several conjunctions in close succession especially where some could otherwise be omitted

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Rhyme

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The repetition of similar sounds or the same sound in two or more words usually at the end of lines in poems and songs

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Rhyming couplet

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A two line stanza in a poem where both lines rhyme with each other

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Sibilance

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A specific type of alliteration that uses soft consonant sounds like ‘s’ and ‘sh’

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Syllable

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An uninterrupted sound that is used to build a word

Words with only one syllable are monosyllabic and words with many syllables are polysyllabic

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Syntax

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The order in which words are put together to form clauses and sentences